It’s pretty simple. Software quality isn’t on spreadsheet. The cost to build it is.
The value of the products coming from research and development are not on the spreadsheet everyone is looking at. The cost to develop them is.
If it’s not on the spreadsheet, it doesn’t exist to the people who make the decisions about money. They have orders to cut spending and that’s what they’ll do.
This may sound utterly insane, but business management is a degree and job. Knowledge about what you are managing is secondary to knowing how to manage.
That’s why there is an entire professional class of people who manage the details of a project. They also don’t need to know what they are getting details for. Their job is to make numbers for the managers.
At no point does anyone actually care what these numbers mean for the company as a whole. That’s for executives.
Many executives just look at spreadsheets to make decisions.
The value of the products coming from research and development are not on the spreadsheet everyone is looking at. The cost to develop them is.
If it’s not on the spreadsheet, it doesn’t exist to the people who make the decisions about money. They have orders to cut spending and that’s what they’ll do.
This may sound utterly insane, but business management is a degree and job. Knowledge about what you are managing is secondary to knowing how to manage.
That’s why there is an entire professional class of people who manage the details of a project. They also don’t need to know what they are getting details for. Their job is to make numbers for the managers.
At no point does anyone actually care what these numbers mean for the company as a whole. That’s for executives.
Many executives just look at spreadsheets to make decisions.